| Author: | Julie O'Yang | ISBN: | 1230000015524 |
| Publisher: | Gingko Press | Publication: | August 31, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Julie O'Yang |
| ISBN: | 1230000015524 |
| Publisher: | Gingko Press |
| Publication: | August 31, 2012 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
* A haunting love story a la Romeo and Juliet ofthe Orient, a love that cannot be but a love that will grow old during the most devastating war in history.
* A shamelessly original work of art that you can read legally outside China. ￭ New Beijing Voice
* A tour de force. ￭ Leanne Delehanty,author and visual artist
* A refreshing pallet of colours…A subtle undercurrent of prose ￭ Ashish Anant, Out of the Blue
* This is the kind of book that you read from cover to cover and when you are done, it changes you. Transforms you. From Cover to Cover. ￭ Priyanka Dey, Neverland .
* [...] reminds you of the joy of discovering a treasure, and wondering why there aren't a few hundred-thousand more who have already found it before you. ￭ Gabriel Ricardo, Unlikely stories.
* […] has all the essential ingredients that makes a bestseller. There never seems to be a damp moment with the right choice of words. ￭ Creative Ecstasy
* History is written only once, so is Butterfly by Julie O'Yang. ￭ Young Chronicle
*…wounding, destroying even, but never devastating, for amidst everything there is laughter. ￭ Jeremy Fernando, author, literary critic
*...this is nothing like I’ve read before. The writing style is "different” , somewhat a la Haruki Murakami. ￭ The Vault of Books
Set against the backdrop of the SecondWorld War/Sino-Japanese war (1931-1945), the story centres around the fatal love between a married Chinese woman and a young Japanese soldier. However, the fantastic tale is not as simple as its plot suggests. In the forties of the 20th century, one summer day, on the bending shore of the magical, eternal river Yangtze, a woman meets a young stranger she falls in love with. But he can’t love her back, and she can’t love him if she would have known why he has hunted her down all over China to tell her a dark secret…
BUTTERFLY is a modern fairy tale that explores passion beyond all forbidden boundaries and love tested to its limits to defy even death. Taking a stab at sensitive historical, social issues such as the Rape of Nanking, the question arises, what is love? Where is the salvation in all the heartlessness of mankind? Are we able to love, a deed that is so often taken for granted? Perhaps love is neither simple nor always pleasant or even inhuman. In the end the protagonists have to undergo a metamorphosis in order to be reunited again on the bank of the Yangtze River, where they met seven decades ago.
* A haunting love story a la Romeo and Juliet ofthe Orient, a love that cannot be but a love that will grow old during the most devastating war in history.
* A shamelessly original work of art that you can read legally outside China. ￭ New Beijing Voice
* A tour de force. ￭ Leanne Delehanty,author and visual artist
* A refreshing pallet of colours…A subtle undercurrent of prose ￭ Ashish Anant, Out of the Blue
* This is the kind of book that you read from cover to cover and when you are done, it changes you. Transforms you. From Cover to Cover. ￭ Priyanka Dey, Neverland .
* [...] reminds you of the joy of discovering a treasure, and wondering why there aren't a few hundred-thousand more who have already found it before you. ￭ Gabriel Ricardo, Unlikely stories.
* […] has all the essential ingredients that makes a bestseller. There never seems to be a damp moment with the right choice of words. ￭ Creative Ecstasy
* History is written only once, so is Butterfly by Julie O'Yang. ￭ Young Chronicle
*…wounding, destroying even, but never devastating, for amidst everything there is laughter. ￭ Jeremy Fernando, author, literary critic
*...this is nothing like I’ve read before. The writing style is "different” , somewhat a la Haruki Murakami. ￭ The Vault of Books
Set against the backdrop of the SecondWorld War/Sino-Japanese war (1931-1945), the story centres around the fatal love between a married Chinese woman and a young Japanese soldier. However, the fantastic tale is not as simple as its plot suggests. In the forties of the 20th century, one summer day, on the bending shore of the magical, eternal river Yangtze, a woman meets a young stranger she falls in love with. But he can’t love her back, and she can’t love him if she would have known why he has hunted her down all over China to tell her a dark secret…
BUTTERFLY is a modern fairy tale that explores passion beyond all forbidden boundaries and love tested to its limits to defy even death. Taking a stab at sensitive historical, social issues such as the Rape of Nanking, the question arises, what is love? Where is the salvation in all the heartlessness of mankind? Are we able to love, a deed that is so often taken for granted? Perhaps love is neither simple nor always pleasant or even inhuman. In the end the protagonists have to undergo a metamorphosis in order to be reunited again on the bank of the Yangtze River, where they met seven decades ago.
